What the Army’s writers probably were trying to say when they stepped into a big pile of ‘rapid curricular responsiveness’
I was reading an article in the Australian Army Journal from 2009 when I thought to myself, "Hey, this is probably what the U.S. Army was trying to say with that stupid white paper on human performance optimization." That’s what I said to myself. The Australian article is titled "The Adaptive Officer: Think, Communicate and ...
I was reading an article in the Australian Army Journal from 2009 when I thought to myself, "Hey, this is probably what the U.S. Army was trying to say with that stupid white paper on human performance optimization." That's what I said to myself.
I was reading an article in the Australian Army Journal from 2009 when I thought to myself, "Hey, this is probably what the U.S. Army was trying to say with that stupid white paper on human performance optimization." That’s what I said to myself.
The Australian article is titled "The Adaptive Officer: Think, Communicate and Influence." Unlike the American effort, it is pretty clear about what to do and how to do it — and in fact captures the essence of the article in the title. I think we should just adopt it.
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